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Roads from Rio+20: pathways to achieve global sustainability goals by 2050

15-05-2012

The report 'Roads from Rio+20' shows that the potential exists for achieving international sustainability goals on hunger, food production, biodiversity and energy and climate in the next few decades. The report explores a number of pathways in terms of effort, interlinkages between themes and governance conditions.

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Higher expected greenhouse gas emissions from pledges

26-04-2012

Many countries have pledged to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. Due to upward revisions of greenhouse gas emission projections in many developing countries higher emission levels from the pledges are expected, and therefore, achieving the 2 degree Celsius climate goal becomes more difficult.

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Climate Adaptation in the Dutch Delta

21-03-2012

In ‘Climate Adaptation in the Dutch Delta – Strategic options for a climate-proof development of the Netherlands’, PBL offers answers to questions, such as: Which options would be most effective to reduce flood risks? How could freshwater supplies be secured and the climate-resilience of nature and urban areas be improved?

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Environmental policy needs more decisive action

15-03-2012

Based on joint modelling by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, the Environmental Outlook to 2050 looks ahead to the year 2050 to ascertain what demographic and economic trends might mean for the environment. It concludes that urgent action is needed now.

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Evaluation of the Dutch policy document on sustainable crop protection

29-02-2012

Water quality has improved due to legislation on crop protection. However, policy objectives for ecological quality of surface waters and drinking water, as set in the Dutch policy document on sustainable crop protection, have not been achieved.

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Climate policy after Kyoto

Limiting global warming to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels is the objective agreed on in international climate negotiations. Due to upward revisions of greenhouse gas emission projections in emerging economies, such as India, Brazil, Mexico and China, achieving this objective has become more difficult. 

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EU Resource efficiency perspectives in a global context

Resource Efficiency is one of the flagship projects of the European Commission. On this subject, the expected global development of five related aspects has been mapped by the PBL: energy, land use, phosphorus (fertiliser), fresh water, and fish stocks.

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